[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.

[AK74]

Someone in Newport Pagnell once found a bag belonging to Morrissey.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Dexy's Dance Stance was a reading list. Also the Clash introduced me to Montgomery Clift.

 

[maltaseagull]

I learnt quite a lot about events concerning the American Civil Rights Movement through the songs of Bob Dylan. One was the abduction and lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till after he allegedly flirted with a white woman in a store...

"The Death of Emmett Till" : Bob Dylan

Freewheeling was the first Album (LP in those days) that I bought.

 

[5Ways Gull]

Alanis Morrisette introduced me to the fact that people from the North American continent really don't get Irony.

 

[Madafwo]

I have learnt that if you're happy, you know it, and you'd really like to show it, you should clap your hands.

 

[Brighton Mackem]

Discovering what a Nantucket sleigh ride was.

 

[Is it PotG?]

More questions than answers though, I still haven't a clue just who IS the five o'clock hero?

 

[tomfitzz]

Mine has to be the significance of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the average american. First properly noticed it in the Fleet Foxes song which goes by the name 'blue ridge mountains' but now it crops up seemingly everywhere.

Now firmly on my bucket list of places to go as it's got to have something special to be mentioned so often.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Mine has to be the significance of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the average american. First properly noticed it in the Fleet Foxes song which goes by the name 'blue ridge mountains' but now it crops up seemingly everywhere.

Now firmly on my bucket list of places to go as it's got to have something special to be mentioned so often.

 

[METALMICKY]

Spandau Ballet was the name given to the jerky death throes of the prisoners that were hung at Spandau Jail.

Well I never knew that and quite dark for essentially a ' fluffy ' band and pop music.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Steely Dan

 

[The Clamp]

First heard of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten via Carter USM’s Sheriff Fatman song


“Moving up on second base behind Nicholas Van What’s-his-face”..

It intrigued me enough to ask my stepdad who he meant. No internet in those days.

 

[The Clamp]

One of many ' educational ' songs from my favourites Iron Maiden. Many people will know the line 'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink' . However, few including myself would have known its origin is Coleridge's poem. If you want to teach kids about a classic poem in a more interesting less dry manner here's a great example.

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is anything but “dry” but yes, Maiden gave it a certain kick.

One of my favourite pieces of writing though. It’s tremendous.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

I hope you also leant to pronounce massacre correctly? From memory they pronounced it mass-a-cree so it rhymed with baby.

Which is the correct pronunciation according to Arlo Guthrie in the song Alice's Restaurant Massacree.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

First heard of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten via Carter USM’s Sheriff Fatman song


“Moving up on second base behind Nicholas Van What’s-his-face”..

It intrigued me enough to ask my stepdad who he meant. No internet in those days.

Very good call.

 

[The Clamp]

Hear about the West Memphis 3 through Eddie Vedder changing the lyrics to one of Pearl Jam’s songs, Do The Evolution, when playing live to

“free the West Memphis Three”

West Memphis Three - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[WildWood]

Thanks to Gwen Stefani, I know now how to spell Bananas…

 

[METALMICKY]

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is anything but “dry” but yes, Maiden gave it a certain kick.

One of my favourite pieces of writing though. It’s tremendous.

I was just suggesting the average school child might find it so. I think it's great. Thanks to Bruce Dickinson I now have an appreciation of William Blake.

 

[Alfagull]

This was an eye-opener!

 

[marlowe]

You sure you got the right song?

I don’t think Korn ever covered Running to that Hill, and its lyrics aren’t about anything particularly sinister.

So what do you make of the lyrics? I always assumed it was about a man and a woman trying to understand each other.

Wonder if they're thinking of Cloudbursting?

Or "The Kick Inside" which is about a consensual incestual relationshjp between a brother and a sister and the sister becomes pregnant as a result.

That's quite dark subject matter.

The song was inspired by a traditional folk song called Lucy Wan

The song that inspired Kate Bush to write about incest

Take a look at the traditional folk song that inspired Kate Bush to write a song about incest, and see why she chose to write about such a taboo

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